Most parents know that moment of dread – your child is scratching furiously in the middle of the night, pulling at their ...

It's spring, which means all the little critters of the world hatch and come out … and that makes pediatricians think of pinworms. That's what you were thinking of, right? Pinworms, or Enterbiasis ...

Children share all kinds of things when they go back to school – books, pencils, stories from summer vacation and, unfortunately, pesky and sometimes dangerous parasites that rely on close contact ...

Pinworms involve infection by a parasitic worm that may live in the large intestine of a human. A child may contract the infection after unknowingly transferring the worms into their body from a ...